Work In Progress: E-portfolios in Computer Science and Engineering Education

Electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) provide an excellent vehicle for demonstrating what students have acquired in the way of attitudes, knowledge, skills and abilities during their progress through their selected program of learning. The contribution of this paper is to show how the portfolio process can be applied to a technical discipline? The purpose of the e-portfolios is to provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their individual skills, guided by their personal goals and their acquired competencies required as per the graduate profile of their degree programmes. Students´ participation in the project is on voluntary basis and development of the portfolios is not a part of assessment in the degree programme. Involving personnel from industry for their feedback on the (development) specification of (annotation criteria) life-long learning skills and students portfolios is one of the major aims of this project. Data will be collected from student participants to determine the effectiveness of e-portfolios as a tool for learning